O'Reilly v. Edrington’s Empirical Analysis
96 U.S. 724 · 1877
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 6 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1957 · most notably Hudson v. Parker (1895), Credit Co. v. Arkansas Central Railway Co. (1888)
35 federal appellate · 6 district · 5 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on The "Atlas." · Martin v. Hazard Powder Co. · Jerome v. McCarter · O'Reilly v. Edrington
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The security required upon writs of error and appeal must be taken by the judge or justice” — not a judge or justice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The judge has never acted; but, as the omission was undoubtedly caused by the order of the court permitting the clerk to take the bond, the case is a proper one for the application of the rule by which this court sometimes refuses to dismiss appeals and writs of error, except on failure to comply with such terms as may be imposed for the purpose of supplying defects in the proceedings.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.